A very focused TV roundup
Apr. 23rd, 2017 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthTwo weeks’ worth of AoS, back to having more superheroes to talk about this coming week; though I have been watching a reviewing a lot of s1 Arrow (I should probably start actually posting some).
I’m also fighting off an urge to rewatch Doctor Who, between Legends pulling me back in that direction and then randomly stumbling through some stuff about Doctor/Rose reminding me how much I loved that ship the pull to rewatch is pretty strong. Maybe when I’m not so invested in watching baseball I’ll give into that impulse.
Agents of SHIELD 4x17
I kind of forgot to write this up last night, so my thoughts aren’t quite what they might have been at the time, which can be both a good and bad thing since I’ve settled a few thoughts over doing an immediate reaction.
I still hate the look of Framework-world. I can’t tell if Jemma still looks so bad because she is basically a zombie or if she just hasn’t showered since she rose from the grave. Radcliffe’s island should look like a paradise even though it’s a prison, but it looks just as grey as everything else. I suspect this will be a recurring complaint until they get back to the real world.
Which, btw, I would like to know what’s happening out there. Are Yoyo and Piper and the rest making any progress from their end or are they just sitting around? What about Aida (also btw I’d always assumed Aida was a name not an acronym, named for Aida Lovelace in my mind) and the Russian, what are they up to? If we’re not going to see any of this as the story progresses, that means we have to get out of the Framework before the end of the season since they’ll still have to fight the baddies in the real world too.
So once the season is over am I going to feel the need for a support group for brainwashed characters (and their loved ones who watched them become monsters under said brainwashing)? Because I went through this with Rip Hunter already this season, and will almost certainly have something similar to this happen with May before this arc is done. In fact, as upset as I am over what’s going on with Fitz, I think it’s very clear that this isn’t Fitz so when they get out of it, while he’ll be upset (devastated probably) over it naturally, I think it’ll be worse for May. Because so far May is...still recognizably May, in a way Fitz isn’t; and yet she is the monster May sometimes believes she is.
Coulson is in a weird spot right now, caught between two worlds as it were, and since that’s the case, I go back to thinking it will be May who shakes him up again just as he will for her. It’s weird that after so much of the season building up their relationship that it isn’t given more importance in this part of the arc. Of course it hasn’t actually been that long, it just kind of feels that way, so I probably am reacting too quickly. But this episode focused on FitzSimmons (which is fair since Simmons actually knows remembers how things should be), so I hope we can start getting Philinda in the next one.
I thought it was weird last week (and fittingly didn’t bother to mention it) how no one really cared about Mace. This week we do actually get Mace but no one seems to be trying very hard to pull him out of the Framework mindset. It’s not just that it’s not being talked about; there’s a very clear difference between the way Skye acts with May and how Simmons treats Mace here, with May it definitely feels like if they knew how to break the programming they’d be doing it, while I’m not even sure Simmons cares that Mace is also one of the prisoners here.
Agents of SHIELD 4x18
I enjoyed that episode well enough while I was watching it, but after the fact I’m left with a pretty solid meh feeling. I had called the idea that Fitz’s dad was going to be a factor in why he was this way; while May does a lot of things I don’t know how much of it is well developed; I don’t have an emotional reaction to seeing digital copies of characters dead in the main world being around here (except I guess for Hope since she matters so much to Mack), I’m rather Simmons-like about that.
I am still sort of processing how I feel about Mace’s death. On one hand (again being Simmons about this) his death doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things and yet...this life mattered to him and he traded it in a cause he believed it, there are worse ends he could have met. There’s also the factor that this feels a little like it’s making it easy for Coulson to become the head of SHIELD again when they get back to the real world, but we’ll see.
I did like the end; but like I said I don’t know how earned it was. May and Skye taking down Hydra is a good plot point that I’m kind of looking forward to next time.
But look, I think one of my big problems is kind of predictable; you can’t have Coulson going around half-recognizing everybody and not give him more reaction to meeting up with the person who canonically means everything to him in the real world. This could be built on next time, but it bugs me right now.
I’m also fighting off an urge to rewatch Doctor Who, between Legends pulling me back in that direction and then randomly stumbling through some stuff about Doctor/Rose reminding me how much I loved that ship the pull to rewatch is pretty strong. Maybe when I’m not so invested in watching baseball I’ll give into that impulse.
Agents of SHIELD 4x17
I kind of forgot to write this up last night, so my thoughts aren’t quite what they might have been at the time, which can be both a good and bad thing since I’ve settled a few thoughts over doing an immediate reaction.
I still hate the look of Framework-world. I can’t tell if Jemma still looks so bad because she is basically a zombie or if she just hasn’t showered since she rose from the grave. Radcliffe’s island should look like a paradise even though it’s a prison, but it looks just as grey as everything else. I suspect this will be a recurring complaint until they get back to the real world.
Which, btw, I would like to know what’s happening out there. Are Yoyo and Piper and the rest making any progress from their end or are they just sitting around? What about Aida (also btw I’d always assumed Aida was a name not an acronym, named for Aida Lovelace in my mind) and the Russian, what are they up to? If we’re not going to see any of this as the story progresses, that means we have to get out of the Framework before the end of the season since they’ll still have to fight the baddies in the real world too.
So once the season is over am I going to feel the need for a support group for brainwashed characters (and their loved ones who watched them become monsters under said brainwashing)? Because I went through this with Rip Hunter already this season, and will almost certainly have something similar to this happen with May before this arc is done. In fact, as upset as I am over what’s going on with Fitz, I think it’s very clear that this isn’t Fitz so when they get out of it, while he’ll be upset (devastated probably) over it naturally, I think it’ll be worse for May. Because so far May is...still recognizably May, in a way Fitz isn’t; and yet she is the monster May sometimes believes she is.
Coulson is in a weird spot right now, caught between two worlds as it were, and since that’s the case, I go back to thinking it will be May who shakes him up again just as he will for her. It’s weird that after so much of the season building up their relationship that it isn’t given more importance in this part of the arc. Of course it hasn’t actually been that long, it just kind of feels that way, so I probably am reacting too quickly. But this episode focused on FitzSimmons (which is fair since Simmons actually knows remembers how things should be), so I hope we can start getting Philinda in the next one.
I thought it was weird last week (and fittingly didn’t bother to mention it) how no one really cared about Mace. This week we do actually get Mace but no one seems to be trying very hard to pull him out of the Framework mindset. It’s not just that it’s not being talked about; there’s a very clear difference between the way Skye acts with May and how Simmons treats Mace here, with May it definitely feels like if they knew how to break the programming they’d be doing it, while I’m not even sure Simmons cares that Mace is also one of the prisoners here.
Agents of SHIELD 4x18
I enjoyed that episode well enough while I was watching it, but after the fact I’m left with a pretty solid meh feeling. I had called the idea that Fitz’s dad was going to be a factor in why he was this way; while May does a lot of things I don’t know how much of it is well developed; I don’t have an emotional reaction to seeing digital copies of characters dead in the main world being around here (except I guess for Hope since she matters so much to Mack), I’m rather Simmons-like about that.
I am still sort of processing how I feel about Mace’s death. On one hand (again being Simmons about this) his death doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things and yet...this life mattered to him and he traded it in a cause he believed it, there are worse ends he could have met. There’s also the factor that this feels a little like it’s making it easy for Coulson to become the head of SHIELD again when they get back to the real world, but we’ll see.
I did like the end; but like I said I don’t know how earned it was. May and Skye taking down Hydra is a good plot point that I’m kind of looking forward to next time.
But look, I think one of my big problems is kind of predictable; you can’t have Coulson going around half-recognizing everybody and not give him more reaction to meeting up with the person who canonically means everything to him in the real world. This could be built on next time, but it bugs me right now.
